Aim and purpose

Aim and purpose#

Take this course so this won’t happen to you:

Learning goals of this course#

By the end of the course you should be able to …

  • … know and use best-practices to write “good scientific code”.

  • … write a well structured, readable, maintainable and documented program,

  • … test your program to ensure correct, reliable and reproducible results.

  • … describe the components of a computer and explain how they affect the efficiency of your code,

  • … know and use state-of-the-art python packages for geodata processing,

  • … use git to keep track of all your changes and collaborate with others.

  • … find resources to teach yourself new tools for scientific programming.

Working Style: Pair Programming#

pair programming

References#

Wilson G, Aruliah DA, Brown CT, Chue Hong NP, Davis M, Guy RT, et al. (2014) Best Practices for Scientific Computing. PLoS Biol 12(1): e1001745. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001745

Miller, G. (2006). A scientist’s nightmare: software problem leads to five retractions.

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